CVE-2012-0858: Ffmpeg

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: version 0.7.1 only; version 0.7.2 only; version 0.7.6 only; version 0.7.7 only; version 0.7.8 only; version 0.7.9 only; …
• Libav Libav: version 0.5 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.5.3 only; version 0.5.4 only; version 0.5.5 only; …

Published 2012-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.